Nobody would argue that Batman: The Animated Collection obtained higher when it was redesigned and renamed The New Batman Adventures in 1997, however that latter run nonetheless had its shiny spots. Living proof, season 2’s “Legends of the Darkish Knight,” which homages a number of basic Batman tales, together with Frank Miller‘s The Darkish Knight Returns. Prime Video collection Batman: Caped Crusader, the Bruce Timm-created religious sequel to the Animated Collection, hopes to observe within the footsteps of The New Batman Adventures, however not solely referencing Darkish Knight Returns, however mashing it up with one of the beloved episodes of The Animated Collection.
A sneak-peek of Caped Crusader season 2 options an photos of Batman speaking to a child sporting a masks and a gray swimsuit. In keeping with IGN, that child is Carrie Kelley, the Robin of The Darkish Knight Returns. And the swimsuit she’s sporting is that of the Gray Ghost, the character voiced by Adam West within the nice Animated Collection episode “Beware the Grey Ghost.”
The mashup is a intelligent little bit of homage, mixing collectively seems at Batman’s previous and his future. The Darkish Knight Returns is the defining future story for the Caped Crusader, by which Batman returns from retirement after 20 years to battle the mutants who’ve conquered Gotham. Grizzled and violent, Batman features an ally in Carrie Kelley, a younger woman impressed by the hero’s reemergence to turn out to be the subsequent Robin.
“Beware the Gray Ghost” seems backward, and never simply because it options Adam West, who was the defining Batman actor when the episode premiered in 1992. The episode barely revises Batman’s origin to make the Gray Ghost, a fedora-wearing crimefighter within the vein of the Inexperienced Hornet, into Bruce Wayne’s inspiration, greater than the normal Zorro. When a legal begins recreating assaults from the outdated TV collection The Gray Ghost, Batman groups up with actor Simon Trent (West) to assist resolve the crime. By the tip of the episode, Batman thanks Gray Ghost for uplifting him as an grownup, a transparent nod from voice actor Kevin Conroy and the Animated Collection crew to West and Batman 1966.
